Ioan Gruffudd returns to Australia

Harrow - Interview Opportunity

Monday, February 26, 2018 —
International actor Ioan Gruffudd will return to Australia to promote the new 10-part drama series, Harrow, which premieres Friday 9 March at 8:30pm on ABC.

Welsh born actor, Ioan Gruffudd, known for his role in the Emmy Award winning miniseries Horatio Hornblower as well as appearances in television shows such as Glee, Liar, Forever and UnReal, will return to Australia for interviews next week (6-9 March).

Ioan became internationally known when he was cast as Dr. Reed Richards aka Mr. Fantastic in the Fantastic Four and The Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer. He showed us his comedic side when he appeared in Horrible Bosses.

Other film credits include; The TV Set, The Kid, The Secret of Moonacre, Agent Crush, Fireflies in the Garden, and starred in the tragic love story Solomon & Gaenor, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Foreign Language Film. Ioan made a return to the big screen in San Andreas and The Professor and the Madman.

Ioan was recently awarded the Welsh BAFTA's Sian Phillips award for significant contribution to film or television. He currently resides in Los Angeles.

Please contact me should you like to interview Ioan next week.

HARROW SYNOPSIS

Dr. Daniel Harrow (Ioan Gruffudd) is the senior medical examiner at the Queensland Institute of Forensic Medicine – the morgue to which all unnatural deaths in the city are brought.

Harrow is smart. Harrow is impatient. He is a dedicated scientist and a maverick rule breaker. And he is cool. He’s cool because he is comfortable in his own skin. He is confident and knows just how good he is – he’s the best pathologist in the state and probably the country – but that is not ego, just fact. He is not out to impress, and truly doesn’t care what most others think of him. What he cares about is the truth. He is curious. He is restless. He doesn’t just want to know what happened; he wants to know why. And the answer to the why invariably lies in understanding the person. Human nature – in all its glory and all its warts, its goodness and darkness, its complexity and contradictions – holds the answer.

Harrow’s uncanny insights into human nature set him apart, giving him a unique ability to decipher the final moments of the dead ... and give them a voice.

But 20 years of working with victims of violent crime has taken its toll. It’s cost Harrow his marriage, his relationship with his daughter Fern, and his own peace of mind. He does his job, and he does it better than anyone. But he dreams of sailing away on his beloved yacht and never coming back.

Then, everything changes:

A new case lands in his morgue; the skeletal remains of a man have been dredged from the river, cocooned in concrete. However this discovery comes as no surprise to Harrow...

Now, the clock is ticking. Harrow is quick to take on the case. He gives no clue about why he's so fascinated by it, but inside he is in turmoil: torn between his ironclad integrity and his dark secret. Harrow must use his unique forensic skills to conceal the crime. But how long can he keep his secret hidden when the people he works with every day have the skills to expose him?

As Harrow stalls for time, he must take on cases that are as fascinating as they are heartbreaking. Over the course of the series, as more layers of his own secret are slowly revealed, we will finally come to understand who it was that Harrow put in the river – and most importantly, why… and we’ll be cheering for Harrow to stay free.

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